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		<title>Say Hello to the  Free Agent Learner!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 20:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Miller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[middle school]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say hello to the free agent learner—also known as a typical middle school student! Students are not waiting around for educators to provide a new type of environment for their learning.  On the contrary, they are creating opportunities for themselves—especially middle school students who view learning in new, often very different ways, from even today’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Wishes for the New Ed Tech Task Force</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Blackney</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology Planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess you know when you are getting old when you can say things like, “I have watched educational technology in California for thirty years.”  Unfortunately, this statement is all too true in my case.  From the days of AB 803 to the current state initiatives, the State of California developed many technology master plans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elements of Effective Online Learning</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/elements-of-effective-online-learning/1570.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna Hackner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along with some other TICAL cadre members, I&#8217;m participating in CTAP 11&#8242;s Leading Edge Online Teaching Certification Program Boot Camp.   One of our activities was to present some key concepts from current research on online learning in a non-traditional way. We had to select from six research topics, and I selected, &#8220;Best Practices for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fishing for Apps</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/fishing-for-apps/1549.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/fishing-for-apps/1549.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Vaughn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m guessing you may have heard the Chinese proverb: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. I contend this advice is applicable today as it relates to selecting and using apps for mobile devices such as tablet computers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything is Amazing and Nobody’s Happy</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/everything-is-amazing-and-nobodys-happy/1529.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/everything-is-amazing-and-nobodys-happy/1529.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Scoolis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pondering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dilemmas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The school district I work in just offered a sizable cash retirement incentive for teachers and administrators age 55 or older with at least ten years of district service.  About a third of the district&#8217;s teaching and administrative staff was eligible for the incentive, and that includes me, an older digital immigrant.  So of course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Social Media is Changing School Business</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/how-social-media-is-changing-school-business/1502.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devin Vodicka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology is impacting international diplomacy.  Under Hillary Clinton&#8217;s leadership, the U.S. Department of State is embracing 21st Century Statecraft, which it defines as &#8220;The complementing of traditional foreign policy tools with newly innovated and adapted instruments of statecraft that fully leverage the networks, technologies, and demographics of our interconnected world.&#8221;  In Secretary Clinton&#8217;s own words, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Predictions for 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/predictions-for-2012/1480.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/predictions-for-2012/1480.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Butch Owens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yogi Berra once said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” That&#8217;s especially true in the world of technology today, but I think we can, at least, predict what the hot topics will be as we head into 2012.  Most important is how we respond to these issues.  Let’s take a look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eTextbooks: Blunder or Bonanza?</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/etextbooks-blunder-or-bonanza/1466.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/etextbooks-blunder-or-bonanza/1466.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Lieux</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[digital textbooks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Providing students with eTextbooks could positively impact teaching and learning in ways we may have never thought possible.  However, broad-scale initiatives to do so could backfire and setback the use of technology in our schools for years to come. The eTextbook blunder could occur if digital copies of traditional textbooks are purchased along with traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five &#8220;Smart&#8221; Tech Skills</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/five-smart-tech-skills/1445.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/five-smart-tech-skills/1445.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Jarvis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the last decade, schools received unprecedented funding through both federal and state initiatives.  For example, in California, we had Immediate Intervention for Underperforming Schools and the High Priority Schools Grant Program.  Together, these two programs alone pumped millions of dollars into California Schools, and many schools tapped these funds to purchase technology in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology and the Arts Merge</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/technology-and-the-arts-merge/1422.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/technology-and-the-arts-merge/1422.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Marie Gonzales</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great news in recent weeks coming out of the Khan Academy. A grant of $5 million has been awarded to the Khan Academy to expand its creation of videos to include the arts and humanities. Khan Academy began a few years ago when Salman Khan tried to create and send YouTube videos in order to [...]]]></description>
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